Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year .
2 The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position .
3 Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence .
4 I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’
5 Last August , it said it planned to incorporate scalable font technology from Adobe Systems Inc and support for shared MS-DOS extenders through an agreement with Rational Systems Inc .
6 He wished it had happened that way .
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